12% of inmates in UK jails are Muslim, but they are only 1.5% of population

[spindrift]

total and utter rubbish

 

http://gazademosupport.org.uk/articles/outcry-at-sentence-as-teen-protester-is-jailed/

 

The heavy sentences – so far more than 50 young mainly Muslim men and women have received between one and two-and-half years – have been met by a massive backlash from human rights campaigners and top lawyers.

 

 

Jeremy Corbyn MP has described them as “totally disproportionate” and has called for an independent public inquiry into police conduct and the sentencing.

 

 

 

Newly released video footage, shown during a 15-minute BBC Newsnight special last Wednesday, revealed how riot police rushed at protesters, beating them with shields and batons.

 

 

More than 1,600 people have signed a petition condemning the sentencing and 44 MPs have signed an Early Day Motion set down by Mr Corbyn.

 

 

It says:

 

“That this House acknowledges the right of the citizen to express lawful views about the unlawful acts of others at peaceful demonstrations; notes the disproportionate and unusually harsh sentences imposed on many young Muslims, most of exemplary character, who demonstrated against the Israeli attack on Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009; and calls for an independent inquiry into the conduct of the police and public and the unwarranted collective conduct of the courts relevant to these demon strations.”

 

 

 

 

The sentences send the message out to British Muslims that British laws apply to them differently and more severely.

[patty1142]

It is not rubbish at all. You're clearly a bigot with an agenda and are looking to confirm your prejudices.

 

and what are you going on about now?

[boyfriday]

on average a criminal commits 50 crimes before being caught and jailed

 

She wasn't disputing that, she was referring to innocent people who get convicted.

[spindrift]

and what are you going on about now?

 

You claimed muslims don't receive higher penalties.

 

The Gaza protest proves you wrong:

 

MPs and protesters are stepping up their campaign against "extreme and disproportionate" sentences handed down to young Muslims involved in demonstrations against the Israeli invasion of Gaza last year.

 

There were 119 arrests after protests outside the Israeli embassy in London during which bottles and stones were thrown and a coffee shop was attacked.

 

Seventy-eight protesters were charged, most with violent disorder. So far 22 have been jailed for between eight months and two and half years, and more cases are due to come before the courts.

 

This week the families of those sentenced, the vast majority of whom are Muslim, met lawyers and MPs at the Commons to set out their concerns.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/05/gaza-protest-harsh-jail-terms

[patty1142]

http://gazademosupport.org.uk/articles/outcry-at-sentence-as-teen-protester-is-jailed/

 

The heavy sentences – so far more than 50 young mainly Muslim men and women have received between one and two-and-half years – have been met by a massive backlash from human rights campaigners and top lawyers.

 

 

Jeremy Corbyn MP has described them as “totally disproportionate” and has called for an independent public inquiry into police conduct and the sentencing.

 

 

 

Newly released video footage, shown during a 15-minute BBC Newsnight special last Wednesday, revealed how riot police rushed at protesters, beating them with shields and batons.

 

 

More than 1,600 people have signed a petition condemning the sentencing and 44 MPs have signed an Early Day Motion set down by Mr Corbyn.

 

 

It says:

 

“That this House acknowledges the right of the citizen to express lawful views about the unlawful acts of others at peaceful demonstrations; notes the disproportionate and unusually harsh sentences imposed on many young Muslims, most of exemplary character, who demonstrated against the Israeli attack on Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009; and calls for an independent inquiry into the conduct of the police and public and the unwarranted collective conduct of the courts relevant to these demon strations.”

 

 

 

 

The sentences send the message out to British Muslims that British laws apply to them differently and more severely.

 

you riot you go to jail regardless of religion

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Joanne Gilmore, researcher in the School of Law at Manchester University, has monitored the cases and says people at more violent protests had received more lenient non-custodial, sentences.

 

"The vast majority of them were people of exemplary character, who were involved in the communities, caring for their families and often studying,"

 

she said.

 

 

"The demonstrations were overwhelmingly peaceful and if you compare the relatively minor disturbances that took place with the violence on other demonstrations these sentences are very severe."

[spindrift]

you riot you go to jail regardless of religion

 

No, because other rioters did not go to prison, as the report I'm sure you read makes clear.

 

They, of course, were not muslims.

[Suffragette1]

Ma'am, I have unswerving faith in the judicial system, if they're found guilty by a jury of their peers, then they guilty as sin!

 

Hmmmm, get that tongue out of your cheek.

 

If I had time, I could list a whole manner of miscarriages of justice and point you to sentencing patterns of certain sectors of the population, where the sentence was totally disproportionate to the crime.

[spindrift]

The protests near the Israeli *embassy at the height of the onslaught were angry: bottles and stones were thrown, a *Starbucks was trashed and the police employed unusually violent tactics, even by the standards of other recent confrontations, such as the G20 protests.

 

But a year later, it turns out that it's the sentences that are truly exceptional. Of 119 people arrested, 78 have been charged, all but two of them young *Muslims (most between the ages of 16 and 19), according to Manchester University's Joanna Gilmore, even though such figures in no way reflect the mix of those who took part.

 

 

In the past few weeks, 15 have been convicted, mostly of violent disorder, and jailed for between eight months and two-and-a-half years – *having switched to guilty pleas to avoid heavier terms. Another nine are up to be sentenced tomorrow.

 

The severity of the charges and sentencing goes far beyond the official response to any other recent anti-war demonstration, or even the violent stop the City protests a decade ago. So do the arrests, many of them carried out months after the event in dawn raids by dozens of police officers, who smashed down doors and handcuffed family members as if they were suspected terrorists. Naturally, none of the more than 30 complaints about police *violence were upheld, even where video *evidence was available.

 

Nothing quite like this has happened, in fact, since 2001, when young Asian Muslims rioted against extreme rightwing racist groups in Bradford and other northern English towns and were subjected to heavily disproportionate prison terms.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/feb/25/anti-muslim-hatred-threat-to-all

[patty1142]

You claimed muslims don't receive higher penalties.

 

The Gaza protest proves you wrong:

 

MPs and protesters are stepping up their campaign against "extreme and disproportionate" sentences handed down to young Muslims involved in demonstrations against the Israeli invasion of Gaza last year.

 

There were 119 arrests after protests outside the Israeli embassy in London during which bottles and stones were thrown and a coffee shop was attacked.

 

Seventy-eight protesters were charged, most with violent disorder. So far 22 have been jailed for between eight months and two and half years, and more cases are due to come before the courts.

 

This week the families of those sentenced, the vast majority of whom are Muslim, met lawyers and MPs at the Commons to set out their concerns.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/05/gaza-protest-harsh-jail-terms

 

you riot you go to jail they had and have it comming, just as anybody else would